{"id":19840,"date":"2024-03-02T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/?p=19840"},"modified":"2024-02-28T08:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:52:34","slug":"kolbe-report-3-2-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/kolbe-report-3-2-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolbe Report 3\/2\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center,<\/p>\n

Glory to Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n

Bishop Robert Barron is one of a number of Church leaders engaged in evangelization and catechesis who has noted that the apparent conflict between \u201cscience\u201d and religion is one of the main causes of the mass exodus of young Catholics out of the Catholic Church.\u00a0 An article published by CAN\/EWTN News reported on two studies showing that young Catholics are leaving the Church in droves at earlier ages than ever before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose that are leaving for no religion \u2013 and a pretty big component of them saying they are atheist or agnostic \u2013 it turns out that when you probe a bit more deeply and you allow them to talk in their own words, that they are bringing up things that are related to science and a need for evidence and a need for proof,\u201d said Dr. Mark Gray, a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. . .<\/p>\n

In exploring why young Catholics were choosing to leave the faith, he noted \u201can emerging profile\u201d of youth who say they find the faith \u201cincompatible with what they are learning in high school or at the university level.\u201d In a perceived battle between the Catholic Church and science, the Church is losing.<\/p>\n

And it is losing Catholics at a young age. \u201cThe interviews with youth and young adults who had left the Catholic Faith revealed that the typical age for this decision to leave was made at 13,\u201d Gray wrote. \u201cNearly two-thirds of those surveyed, 63 percent, said they stopped being Catholic between the ages of 10 and 17. Another 23 percent say they left the Faith before the age of 10.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The article goes on to quote Dr. Grey to the effect that students need to be taught evolution and the Big Bang theory in Catholic schools:<\/p>\n

if students are taught evolution and the Big Bang theory at the same school where they learn religion, and they are taught by people with religious convictions, then \u201cyou\u2019re kind of shown that there\u2019s not conflicts between those, and you understand the Church and Church history and its relationship to science,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, the article wants us to believe that if Catholics with \u201creligious convictions\u201d taught all of our children Big Bang theory and evolution along with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, <\/em>our children would see that there is no conflict between faith and reason and they would remain Catholic.\u00a0 But this is absurd.\u00a0 The irony is that Catholic students are <\/em>being taught Big Bang theory and evolution in almost all of our schools and religious education programs and have been for decades.\u00a0 To say that more<\/em> instruction in these things will stop the unprecedented loss of faith among our youth is like Planned Parenthood arguing that sex education programs, free contraceptives, and pornography are not<\/em> leading to teen pregnancies and that what is needed to prevent them is more<\/em> sex education at an earlier age!<\/p>\n

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All over the world we have found that young Catholics who are taught the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation and its attendant philosophical principles--and who are shown the scientific evidence that refutes molecules to man evolution and harmonizes with the \u201csacred history of Genesis\u201d\u2014those young people have a firm faith on a rock-solid foundation.\u00a0 Indeed, the young people are not the problem.\u00a0 The adults in positions of authority are the problem, because not only do they not teach the truth to our children; they will not even allow others to present it to them for their consideration.<\/p>\n

Eight years ago, we interviewed a number of young Catholics between the ages of 18 and 24 who had held fast to the traditional reading of Genesis.\u00a0 Three were home-schooled high school students and one was a university student.\u00a0 Eight years later, one is a professed traditional Carmelite, another is a novice with a traditional religious order, a third is a priest and fully professed member of a Cistercian monastery, and the fourth is an ardent Catholic still discerning his vocation.\u00a0 If you have not listened to their testimonies, I believe that you will be greatly edified by listening to them at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A member of our leadership team, Ed Taraba, has written an excellent pamphlet entitled \u201cTwenty Reasons to Reject Evolution\u201d which can be viewed and downloaded gratis at this link<\/a> on the Kolbe website.\u00a0 On Easter Sunday, millions of Catholics who have abandoned the Faith, both young and old, will attend Holy Mass, under compulsion from parents or for various other reasons.\u00a0 If they could all be given literature like Mr. Taraba\u2019s pamphlet, it is very likely that many of them would realize that their faith in the modernist evolutionary creation myth has been misplaced and that they need to return to the Faith of their Fathers.<\/p>\n

Yours in Christ through the Immaculata, in union with St. Joseph,<\/p>\n

Hugh Owen<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0 Today is a First Saturday. Please be sure to answer Our Lady\u2019s appeal for the First Saturday devotions as described by the Fatima Center at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

P.P.S. In a previous newsletter<\/a>\u00a0 and in various publications, we have shown the link between the abandonment of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation and the acceptance of the so-called \"brain death\" criterion for determining human death.\u00a0 An important document on this subject was published a few days ago entitled Catholics\u00a0United on Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Call to Action.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>The PDF version of the statement can be found at this link<\/a>.The HTML version of the statement can be found at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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